Summary

This report is the result of an extensive survey drawn from Canadean's exclusive panel of leading food and beverage industry executives. It analyzes how procurement expenditure, business strategies and practices are set to change in the food and beverage industry in 2012-13. This report gives you access to the category-level spending outlooks, budgets, supplier selection criteria, business challenges and investment opportunities for leading purchase decision makers. The report also identifies future growth of buyers and suppliers and e-procurement. This report not only grants access to the opinions and strategies of business decision makers and competitors, but also examines their actions surrounding business priorities. The report also provides access to information categorized by region, company type and size.

Scope

The opinions and forward looking statements of 210 industry executives have been captured in our in-depth survey, of which 29% represent Director and C-level respondents.

The research is based on primary survey research conducted by Canadean accessing its B2B panels comprised of senior purchase decision makers and leading supplier organizations.

The geographical scope of the research is global - drawing on the activity and expectations of leading industry players across the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa and Middle East.